How do they fact-check Orange Is the New Black?
I understand it is just based on or inspired by Piper Kerman's story, so most is made up. But how did the publishers and producers fact-check her story when they bought it, so they did not end up having another Million Little Pieces debacle? (James Frey had completely lied about spending his 87 days in jail and had to confess he'd only spent 5 hours there, then bailed out...among other flagrant lies.)
The events that take place in prison are almost impossible to fact-check, for the most part. They can obviously see who was murdered in prison, but other than that, everything that happens behind those walls is invincible to corroboration. A lot of inmates don't even know the real names of a lot of other inmates. Couldn't anyone just come out of the joint and make stuff up? Does anyone know how the companies bought her story made sure she told the truth?
Once again, I know most of the show is made up. But when they bought it, these productions companies and publishers still wanted some element of veracity to her story, and that is the particular element I wish to know more about.
Best Answer
The issue here is that you have two "creative forces"; Piper Kerman (and any co-authors/editors), and Netflix. The original book was most likely based on actual events, some of which the editors probably changed because they had the hindsight of, "It's be more entertaining if...". So that book was probably 80% truth and 20% "artistic license". This may be a better question for a writing community, but I don't think it's a publisher's job to fact-check a story, but they may explain that if anything turns out to be Fiction in a Non-Fiction book they they may be in some deep trouble and the contract becomes void.
Then the TV studio wants to make a show out of it, and they say, "Great book, but it'd be more entertaining if...". Now they rewrite some scenes. Change some characters. Make up completely new situations. So it's probably 30/70 at this point.
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